Peachtree City Councilman Dan

Tennant has withdrawn his request that the city attorney be dismissed.

Tennant now says he may have

been wrong in his charge that Susan Brown, a member of Lindsey's law firm,

improperly passed information to Tennant's ex-wife during divorce proceedings.

In a joint communique issued

this week, Tennant and Brown say they have agreed "to put this matter

behind us and move forward in a positive light."

Tennant last month demanded

the dismissal of City Attorney Rick Lindsey, who is a partner in Webb,

Stuckey and Lindsey, where Brown works. He also filed a complaint against

Lindsey with the State Bar of Georgia.

He charged that a conspiracy

existed between Brown, his ex-wife's attorneys and Councilwoman Annie

McMenamin. Brown is McMenamin's daughter and a close friend to city clerk

Nancy Faulkner.

Faulkner was deposed Aug. 18

representing Tennant's wife, Kris, in the couple's divorce proceedings.

Wade is married to John Wade, who also is an attorney for Webb, Stuckey

and Lindsey.

Part of the questioning focused

on a conversation that took place as Tennant was helping Faulkner put

some books into a city supply closet early this year. Faulkner said Tennant

had asked if she had ever fooled around in a supply closet and, when she

answered no, joked, "Wouldn't you like to."

She also testified that she

took the remark as a joke and did not consider it sexual harassment.

City Attorney Lindsey attended

Faulkner's deposition because he was concerned that she might be asked

about city business. Afterward, at the direction of Mayor Bob Lenox and

City Manager Jim Basinger, he conducted a brief investigation into the

possibility that the incident constituted sexual harassment, but quickly

ended the inquiry and declared the concerns groundless.

Tennant's lawyer then wrote

a letter to Lenox demanding that Lindsey be dismissed and suggesting that

Lindsey, Brown and McMenamin were conspiring to paint him as a sexual

predator.

"Upon reflection of how

events unfolded, I can certainly understand why Mr. Tennant was upset

with my involvement in this matter," Brown wrote in the joint communique.

She admitted repeating to Leslie

Wade, attorney for Mrs. Tennant, conversations she had had with Faulkner,

but added, "I was not determined to damage Mr. Tennant and never

intended the statement to go beyond his divorce proceedings.

"I apologize to Mr. Tennant

for my involvement in this," she said.

Tennant said he is dropping

the matter and also will not pursue a complaint against Lindsey that he

filed with the State Bar of Georgia.

"After having discussed

the matter in detail, both of us can see where the other side was coming

from and how we came to the conclusions that were made," he wrote.

"As of today, we both

consider this matter over."

Faulkner also wrote a letter

to The Citizen, calling for an end to the hostilities.

"Does Dan have political

adversaries? Absolutely. All politicians do," she said. "But

I don't believe there is a cohesive conspiracy against him because the

politicians in our community are too busy fighting amongst themselves

for any of them to have a cohesive conspiracy about anything."

She said she was dragged into

the divorce case because of small-town gossip, and considers everyone

involved to be friends.

She added that she did consider

Tennant's comments to be inappropriate. "But people need to give

it a rest," she said.

"I hope that Annie, Susan,

Dan and the citizens who have suffered through reading all of this can

accept my apology, call a truce and move on."